Forecasters Expect Sandy to Slam Northeast Sunday

10/26/2012 9:46AM

Hurricane Sandy raged through the Bahamas early Friday after leaving 21 people dead across the Caribbean, following a path that could see it blend with a winter storm and reach the U.S. East Coast as a super-storm next week. Photo: AP Images.

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... the ... ECB ... early Friday after the twenty one to cross the creek ... we have Wall Street Journal contributing meteorologist Eric Holthaus joining us now Eric ... what threats years this term the storm could actually merge ... with ... another winter storm as it moves up the U S East Coast to make a particular danger circling a super storm what what is all about ... yes ... the the hurricane and moving up from the province's offshore Florida ... is ... expected to ... meet its candidates Closes Christie foreigner in town so ... impatient getting better there ... the ... new Midwestern snow storm coming through ... generating itself ... and it paid clicks right now ... I ... a in ... it's going to call in Sydney from the ocean towards the shore ... most models agree on a solution Akshay all every major auto ... now ... this is really moving into a question of where ... yet those models that did the chain sleepily right especially ... a few days out which is when this might hit ... say ... that the Northeast ... to be very difficult to predict the storm and didn't dance much less four days in advance ... but ... another thing that I read about for me if I'm wrong here is that what were we actually are around that time of the full moon which the grays tides ... that also add to what is the most dangerous aspect of a hurricane storm surge ... yet the water level ... executive team of ... forecasters are concerned most about why now is the best for the coastal flooding issues that may happen ... as the storm was fun or it will expand and grow in size ... this is really in terms of wind speed ... the store growth ... it's going to a yes or no water from the much larger fraction of ocean ... and push all that ... sure ... as the asthe that to ... come up with when will push ... the UN and the water ... into sure your words with this ... and also ... we knew we talked about the actual flu or so which is what we expect from ... the sky ... Pullman tidal influence ... you know ... every inch matters is when when ... when I read a button on your city last year ... there are some reports ... were saying that lower Manhattan ... subway ... tunnels there were still only a ... matter of inches ... as far as water seawater for an end so ... you know ... plus or minus one but ... that can be a huge difference when you're ... coastal flooding Erik's thank you so much for joining us this morning that and for more updates the short stay with the beest live course the storm is to be moving all around ... over the next few days so stick with us for that ...